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A 12 page research paper outlining the results of an affirmative action program implemented in the Detroit police department in the mid-1970s. Stresses that the current successes of affirmative action policies, which are no longer in effect, could be lost without continued vigilance to maintain the current racial composition of the force. One method of doing this is the continued provision of training for both promotional candidates and first-time applicants to the force. Bibliography lists fifteen sources.
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File: D0_Detroitp.rtf
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imbalance of this countrys work place has been evident since its very formation. They became particularly apparent after the civil rights movement during the 1960s. With the escalating
national environment toward the establishment of affirmative action programs which were designed to improve the imbalance, agencies around the nation began to design and implement their own affirmative action programs
under the auspices of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The Detroit police department under the direction of Coleman Young, Detroits first black mayor, would come to develop what would
be one of the most aggressive affirmative action programs in the nation. Affirmative action was desperately needed within the department. Although the first black officer had been
hired fairly early in the history of the department, a black did not achieve the rank of Lieutenant until 1962. The department was replete with racism both in its
hiring and promotional practices and also in their dealing with the public. With the implementation of affirmative action the department made substantial changes to its racial composition. At
the implementation of the program in 1974 black employees comprised only eighteen percent of the department even though they comprised over fifty percent of the community and the labor force.
Most of the positions which were held by blacks were lower ranked. Only five percent of the departments sergeants were black and only four percent of the lieutenants
were black. With the implementation of affirmative action these percentages rose substantially. By 1995 the minority composition of the police department rose to approximately fifty-five percent. The
composition of the higher ranks now includes approximately fifty percent minorities. Regardless of its success, affirmative action has met with much resistance in the Detroit police department as
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